Clark C. Evans scripsit: > My question involves 3 works, not 2. We have a original > work O, a "derived" work D (O + a shim/adapter), and an > independent proprietary work P; where D derived from O > under copyright law, D relies upon P for its operation, > and where P has no substitutes. I am assuming that by > copyright law the author of O can restrict the distribution > of D. Let's further assume that P has no substitutes, so > that its functionality is not available under a license > compatible with the GPLv3. So, my question is if the GPLv3 > would restrict the distribution of D due to its dependence > on this independent and proprietary work P.
As a worst case, the behavior of P can be reverse engineered, since it is communicating openly with D in a way that can be analyzed. If you don't know about the Affero GPL3, you should look into it. -- XQuery Blueberry DOM John Cowan Entity parser dot-com [email protected] Abstract schemata http://www.ccil.org/~cowan XPointer errata Infoset Unicode BOM --Richard Tobin _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
